How many people died?
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When a sensationalist runaway badger kills seven people, I move onto the next article. The news is sometimes interesting, but largely isn't. To me.
Did you know: Globally, 40,000 people die a year of snake bite?
I find snakes interesting. I find no such jibber jabber in the news. Not even black snakes who refuse to get on a plane.
The next time I read the news, I'll note that 11 people died the previous year when a popping champagne cork topped them (the figure is about right) but what about the effing snakes?
Statistics are interesting. World Trade Center I never figured out, the occasional reports in the news still vary wildly as to numbers, but yearly still amount to less than 10% of fatal snake bites. Almost all of which don't make the news.
Not sure if this is a snakebite, rant or statistical analysis thread. But all of the above interests me somewhat.
In your industry, how many deaths are there yearly? Do you know? Are you well paid for it etc.
Did you know: Globally, 40,000 people die a year of snake bite?
I find snakes interesting. I find no such jibber jabber in the news. Not even black snakes who refuse to get on a plane.
The next time I read the news, I'll note that 11 people died the previous year when a popping champagne cork topped them (the figure is about right) but what about the effing snakes?
Statistics are interesting. World Trade Center I never figured out, the occasional reports in the news still vary wildly as to numbers, but yearly still amount to less than 10% of fatal snake bites. Almost all of which don't make the news.
Not sure if this is a snakebite, rant or statistical analysis thread. But all of the above interests me somewhat.
In your industry, how many deaths are there yearly? Do you know? Are you well paid for it etc.
Back in the late 90s I worked on underground storage tanks on garage forecourts, live ones, as in still containing fuels.
I lost 2 close friends to accidents, at the time didn't think it was dangerous , yet looking back I can't believe we did what we did.
Bit safer now in the world off alloy wheel repair. (Though i do know of a guy who was overcome buy paint stripper fumes and died)
I lost 2 close friends to accidents, at the time didn't think it was dangerous , yet looking back I can't believe we did what we did.
Bit safer now in the world off alloy wheel repair. (Though i do know of a guy who was overcome buy paint stripper fumes and died)
ked: 100 percent of us old folk die, and there's no prospect of a cure any time soon.
Someone I worked with once collapsed at work (heart attack) and died that evening in hospital. I don't think it was related to the work though.
He's the only person who has died whilst working alongside me though - all other late colleagues had either all retired or switched jobs by the time they died.
He's the only person who has died whilst working alongside me though - all other late colleagues had either all retired or switched jobs by the time they died.
I have no idea how many operationals analysts die every year, I'm guessing less than the 4 people per year in the UK who die putting on thier trousers.
However I'm with the OP on the whole numbers and response thing. For example 3 people die in a terrorist bomb in Boston, it's headline news thousands of miles away for weeks, and there's a city wide curfew. The same day 55 people were killed in series of terrorist bombs in Iraq but it hardly made the western press because they don't speak english
However I'm with the OP on the whole numbers and response thing. For example 3 people die in a terrorist bomb in Boston, it's headline news thousands of miles away for weeks, and there's a city wide curfew. The same day 55 people were killed in series of terrorist bombs in Iraq but it hardly made the western press because they don't speak english
RizzoTheRat said:
I have no idea how many operationals analysts die every year, I'm guessing less than the 4 people per year in the UK who die putting on thier trousers.
However I'm with the OP on the whole numbers and response thing. For example 3 people die in a terrorist bomb in Boston, it's headline news thousands of miles away for weeks, and there's a city wide curfew. The same day 55 people were killed in series of terrorist bombs in Iraq but it hardly made the western press because they don't speak english
No, it hardly made the western press because it didn't happen in the west. Had the Boston bombing happened in Quebec, it would have been just as widely reported.However I'm with the OP on the whole numbers and response thing. For example 3 people die in a terrorist bomb in Boston, it's headline news thousands of miles away for weeks, and there's a city wide curfew. The same day 55 people were killed in series of terrorist bombs in Iraq but it hardly made the western press because they don't speak english
iphonedyou said:
No, it hardly made the western press because it didn't happen in the west. Had the Boston bombing happened in Quebec, it would have been just as widely reported.
Or, for that matter France or any number of other countries. The language is largely immaterial - it's the way that people perceive that country to be. People in a way expect this sort of thing of Iraq.Gnits said:
Office of Death Statistics - last year in the UK 2,000 people died as a reault of RTA's. 24,000 commited suicide.
... now about those speed cameras!
Perspective, that's all I'm saying.
I'll just leave this here.. ... now about those speed cameras!
Perspective, that's all I'm saying.
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